Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier…

Was the old house still standing in spring, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: old house

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 299 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, the pewter soldier leaves and the old man dies» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 house	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	csubj
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 standing	advmod
6	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 spring	case
8	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 standing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 standing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 standing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the old house					tree rules
2	stand	gerund					still; spring		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

no, they tore it down and sold the bricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 tore	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tore	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tore	nsubj
4	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tore	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 tore	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sold	cc
8	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tore	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bricks	det
10	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore down	past	they	it					tree rules
2	sell	past	they not said here	the bricks					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brick=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yes, but it was pulled down later that spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pulled	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 pulled	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pulled	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pulled	aux:pass
6	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 pulled	compound:prt
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 pulled	advmod
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 spring	det
10	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	past · passive		it			spring	late property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

yes, it was standing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 standing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 standing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 standing	aux
5	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past · progressive	it						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, they pulled it down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 pulled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pulled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 pulled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	past	they	it					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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